List of most-streamed artists on Spotify

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The Weeknd has the most monthly listeners on Spotify as of August 2020.

This list contains the most-streamed artists on the audio streaming platform Spotify. As of August 2020, The Weeknd has the most monthly listeners on Spotify by a male artist, and Dua Lipa has the most monthly listeners on Spotify by a female artist. Ed Sheeran has the most followers. Since 2013, Spotify has published a yearly list of its most-streamed artists, which has been topped by Drake a record three times (2015, 2016 and 2018).

Most monthly listeners[edit]

Rank Artist Listeners per month
(millions) 		Chg Ref(s)
1 Canada The Weeknd 65.24 Steady [1]
2 Canada Drake 62.22 Steady [2]
3 Colombia J Balvin 57.18 Steady [3]
4 United Kingdom Dua Lipa 56.13 Steady [4]
5 United Kingdom Ed Sheeran 51.54 Steady [5]
6 United States Cardi B 51.15 Increase [6]
7 United States Ariana Grande 50.94 Decrease [7]
8 Canada Justin Bieber 51.94 Decrease [8]
9 United States Khalid 49.39 Steady [9]
10 United States Jason Derulo 48.65 Steady [10]
11 United States Marshmello 48.44 Steady [11]
12 United States Travis Scott 45.88 Increase [12]
13 Trinidad and Tobago Nicki Minaj 45.39 Increase [13]
14 United States Lady Gaga 45.13 Increase [14]
15 United States Post Malone 44.84 Increase [15]
16 United States Maroon 5 44.83 Decrease [16]
17 United Kingdom Harry Styles 44.59 Increase [17]
18 United States Juice WRLD 44.54 Decrease [18]
19 Puerto Rico Ozuna 44.54 Increase [19]
20 Puerto Rico Bad Bunny 44.42 Decrease [20]
As of September 20, 2020

Most followers[edit]

  Also among the 20 most monthly listeners
Rank Artist Followers[21]
(millions) 		Ref(s)
1 United Kingdom Ed Sheeran 69.62 [5]
2 United States Ariana Grande 50.47 [7]
3 Canada Drake 49.54 [2]
4 Barbados Rihanna 39.07 [22]
5 United States Eminem 37.93 [23]
6 Canada Justin Bieber 37.70 [8]
7 United States Billie Eilish 32.71 [24]
8 United States Taylor Swift 32.30 [25]
9 United States Imagine Dragons 29.77 [26]
10 Canada Shawn Mendes 28.92 [27]
11 United Kingdom Queen 28.74 [28]
12 United States Post Malone 28.17 [15]
13 United Kingdom Coldplay 27.08 [29]
14 United States Maroon 5 26.84 [13]
15 United States Bruno Mars 26.68 [30]
16 United States Marshmello 26.66 [11]
17 Puerto Rico Bad Bunny 24.67 [20]
18 United States Beyoncé 24.38 [31]
19 Puerto Rico Ozuna 24.27 [19]
20 Canada The Weeknd 24.21 [1]
21 Norway Alan Walker 23.81 [32]
22 United Kingdom Adele 23.22 [33]
23 South Korea BTS 22.79 [34]
24 United States Selena Gomez 22.59 [35]
25 Colombia J Balvin 22.41 [3]
As of August 29, 2020

Timeline of peak monthly listeners[edit]

This is a timeline of artists who had the most monthly listeners on Spotify since September 2015, when the feature was made public.[36]

  Indicates most streamed artist of the year

2015[edit]

Month Artist
September Canada The Weeknd[37]
October
November
December Canada Justin Bieber

2016[edit]

Month Artist
January Canada Justin Bieber
February
March
April Barbados Rihanna
May Canada Drake[38]
June
July
August
September
October
November
December Canada The Weeknd[38]

2017[edit]

Month Artist
January Canada The Weeknd[38]
February United Kingdom Ed Sheeran[39]
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

2018[edit]

Month Artist
January United Kingdom Ed Sheeran[39]
February
March Canada Drake[40]
April
May
June Colombia J Balvin[41]
July Canada Drake[40]
August
September
October
November United States Selena Gomez
December United States Ariana Grande[42]

2019[edit]

Month Artist
January United States Ariana Grande[42]
February
March
April
May United States Khalid[43]
June United Kingdom Ed Sheeran[44]
July
August
September
October
November
December

2020[edit]

Month Artist
January United Kingdom Ed Sheeran[44]
February Canada Justin Bieber[45]
March
April Canada The Weeknd
May Canada Drake
June Canada The Weeknd
July
August
September

Most-streamed artists[edit]

Drake was the most-streamed artist on Spotify in 2015, 2016 and 2018—the most years of any artist.

By year[edit]

Number of streams are listed in parenthesis, where available.

Year Artist ranking
1 2 3 4 5
2013[46] Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Avicii Daft Punk Eminem Imagine Dragons
2014[47] Ed Sheeran (860 million) Eminem Coldplay Calvin Harris Katy Perry
2015[48] Drake (1.8 billion) Ed Sheeran The Weeknd Maroon 5 Kanye West
2016[49] Drake (4.7 billion) Justin Bieber Rihanna Twenty One Pilots Kanye West
2017[50] Ed Sheeran (6.3 billion) Drake The Weeknd Kendrick Lamar The Chainsmokers
2018[51] Drake (8.2 billion) Post Malone XXXTentacion J Balvin Ed Sheeran
2019[52] Post Malone (6.5 billion) Billie Eilish Ariana Grande Ed Sheeran Bad Bunny

By decade[edit]

Number of streams are listed in parenthesis, where available.

Decade Artist ranking
1 2 3 4 5
2010s[53] Drake (28 billion) Ed Sheeran Post Malone Ariana Grande Eminem

First 10 years[edit]

Years Artist ranking
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2008–2018[54] Drake Ed Sheeran Eminem The Weeknd Rihanna Kanye West Coldplay Justin Bieber Calvin Harris Ariana Grande

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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  3. ^ a b "J Balvin". Spotify. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
  4. ^ "Dua Lipa". Spotify. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Ed Sheeran". Spotify. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  6. ^ "Cardi B". Spotify. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  7. ^ a b "Ariana Grande". Spotify. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
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  9. ^ "Khalid". Spotify. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
  10. ^ "Jason Derulo". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  11. ^ a b "Marshmello". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  12. ^ "Travis Scott". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
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  15. ^ a b "Maroon 5". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
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  17. ^ "Post Malone". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  18. ^ "Harry Styles". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  19. ^ a b "Ozuna". Spotify. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
  20. ^ a b "Bad Bunny". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
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  22. ^ "Rihanna". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
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  24. ^ "Billie Eilish". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
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  28. ^ "Queen". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
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  30. ^ "Bruno Mars". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
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  32. ^ "Alan Walker". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  33. ^ "Adele". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
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  44. ^ a b "Ed Sheeran Nears 70 Million Monthly Listeners on Spotify as 'No. 6' Lands on 800-Plus Playlists". Billboard. July 18, 2019.
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  52. ^ "Post Malone, Billie Eilish Top Spotify's Year-End 'Wrapped' Charts". Variety. December 2, 2019. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
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